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Restore Date On Standing Liberty Quarter?

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 Posted 06/11/2009  11:42 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mycrob to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I was wondering if anyone has tried the iodine method on dateless silver coins to try to restore them?
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 Posted 06/11/2009  11:45 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add nod2003 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
If anyone finds something let me know, I have a dateless S mint and would love to find out the year.
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 Posted 06/11/2009  12:37 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Conder101 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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I was wondering if anyone has tried the iodine method on dateless silver coins to try to restore them?

I would think the problem there would be that as it reacted it would form silver iodide which has the same problem as nitrate products, silver iodide turns black instantly upon exposure to light. That's why it was used for photographic plates back in the early days of photography.
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 Posted 07/30/2009  12:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hippiebrian to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'm reading old posts (learning, learning, learning...) and this one interested me. Is a dateless silver coin of any type ever worth more than melt? Is it worth playing with these chemicals? Or should they be added to the "bullion pile"?
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 Posted 07/30/2009  1:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biokemist6 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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Is a dateless silver coin of any type ever worth more than melt?

In a few cases, yes, they can absolutely be worth more than melt. The most obvious examples would be one or two year type coins that are identifiable such as the 18th/early 19th century Flowing Hair and Draped Bust designs and even the 1916 SL quarter(a couple minor differences between a 1916 and 1917). However, most coins are virtually obliterated by the time they are dateless, SLQs and Buffalos being the main exceptions due to flaws in the date placement. For most issues, the date is protected from excessive wear in a reasonable manner.
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 Posted 07/30/2009  4:03 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add hippiebrian to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks, I was curious. I know you can buy dateless morgans by the hundreds for bullion value, and wasn't sure about others.
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